Profile: Brittany Murphy
Birth Name: Sharon Murphy
Born: November 10, 1977, Atlanta, Georgia
Height: 5' 3"
Education: Graduated from John Burroughs High school in Burbank, California
Quote: "I like myself with clothes or without."
Quote: "I think they should take everyone who works for The National Enquirer and the Star, and everyone who works for Us Weekly, and put them all to work looking for terrorists. I think they would find the terrorists. All of them. It would be genius!"
Brittany Murphy Biography
Brittany Murphy first came to the attention of film audiences when she starred as Tai, one of Alicia Silverstone's airhead friends in the 1995 comedy Clueless. After making her name as this dim bulb character, Murphy went on to prove that she was anything but clueless with a number of television and film roles that gave expression to the scope of her talent and versatility.
Born in Atlanta on November 10, 1977, Murphy was raised by her mother in Edison, New Jersey. A precocious child who began putting on shows when she was a toddler, Murphy was acting in regional theatre productions by the age of nine. Work in various commercials followed, and in 1990 she landed her first television role, on the sitcom Blossom. She then went on to a lead on the short-lived sitcom Drexell's Class in 1991, and the following year she made her film debut in the dysfunctional family drama Family Prayers. Murphy's talent for portraying all sorts of dysfunction was further exhibited in such films as Clueless; the Reese Witherspoon trailer trash odyssey Freeway (1996); and the made-for-TV David and Lisa (1998). Murphy won particular acclaim for her work in the last film; the story of two emotionally troubled teens (Murphy and Lukas Haas) who reach out to each other allowed the actress to prove herself in a purely dramatic role. In 1999, Murphy could again be seen portraying an emotionally damaged character in Girl, Interrupted, in which she played a patient at a mental institution. That same year, she explored the collective insanity of the beauty pageant world in Drop Dead Gorgeous, playing a pageant contestant who'd rather be living it up in New York with her cross-dressing brother. On the small screen that year, she switched to much darker fare with the Holocaust drama The Devil's Arithmetic.
In addition to the praise she has received for her film portrayals, Murphy has won a different sort of acclaim for the work she has done on the animated TV series King of the Hill. As the voice of the Hills' beauty school sex kitten niece Luanne, the actress earned the kind of recognition that can only come from an animated character who was named one of the sexiest women on television by a major men's magazine.
Brittany Murphy Filmography
Boyfriend in a Box (2005)
Happy Feet (2006) (filming) (voice)--Gloria
Sin City (2005)--Shellie
Little Black Book (2004)
Good Boy! (2003)--(voice)
Uptown Girls (2003)--Molly Gunn
Just Married (2003)--Sarah
8 Mile (2002)--Alex
Spun (2002)--Nikki
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)--Fay Hope Forrester
Don't Say a Word (2001)--Elisabeth Burrows
Summer Catch (2001)
Sidewalks of New York (2001)--Ashley
The Audition (2000)--Daniella
Cherry Falls (2000)--Jody Marken
Angels! (2000)--Nurse Bellows
Trixie (2000)--Ruby Pearli
Common Ground (2000) (TV)--Dorothy Nelson
Girl, Interrupted (1999)--Daisy Randone
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)--Lisa Swenson
The Devil's Arithmetic (1999) (TV)--Rivkah
Falling Sky (1998)--Emily Nicholson
David and Lisa (1998) (TV)--Lisa
Zack and Reba (1998)--Reba Simpson
Phoenix (1998)--Veronica
Bongwater (1998)--Mary
The Prophecy II (1998)--Izzy
"Pepper Ann" (1997) TV Series (voice)--Tank the 8th grader
"King of the Hill" (1997) TV Series (voice)--Luanne Platter / Joseph John
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Double Jeopardy (1996) (TV)--Julia Newland
Drive (1996/I)--Deliverance Bodine
Freeway (1996)--Rhonda
Clueless (1995)--Tai Fraiser
"Sister, Sister" (1994) TV Series--Sarah (1994-1995)
"Almost Home" (1993) TV Series--Molly Morgan
Family Prayers (1993)--Elise
"Drexell's Class" (1991) TV Series--Brenda Drexell
Blossom (1990) (TV)
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